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Sensate

To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

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Animate 84% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Animate 84% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Sentient 84% connected

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which…

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Sentient 84% connected

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which…

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Apprehend verb · 78% connection

Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

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Apprehended imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Apprehend

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Apprehending p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Apprehend

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Arrest verb · 78% connection

To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.

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Audiphone noun · 78% connection

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctl…

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Catch verb · 78% connection

To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

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Comparative adjective · 78% connection

Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree…

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Comprehend verb · 78% connection

To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.

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Conceive verb · 78% connection

To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.

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Delicacy adjective · 78% connection

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

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Deprehend verb · 78% connection

To take unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend.

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Enunciate verb · 78% connection

To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.

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Envisage verb · 78% connection

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

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Feel verb · 78% connection

To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasur…

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Feeling noun · 78% connection

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…

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Geometrize verb · 78% connection

To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the princ…

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Hear verb · 78% connection

To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

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Hypocrisy noun · 78% connection

The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a conceal…

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